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Originally Posted by Savorgnan
I know, they are not even certified as authentic. Just teasing. 
But please explain me how do you connect the Egyptian hieroglyphic alphabet with the Phoenician one? |
Phoenician alphabet came into being from the Hieroglyphic script, via the Protosinaitic script. There is at least a common agreement among historians about that. And the development can be followed in time. It has not been proven beyond any doubt, but it is highly probably and there is no other more plausible explanation. From Phoenician the Greek alphabet came into being, then from Greek the Latin one (as well as - later on - Armenian, Georgian and Ethiopic scripts). Another branch born from the Phoenician script were Aramaic and Hewbrew syllabaries. The Arabic alphabet comes from one variety of the Aramaic.
The script of the old India,
brahmi, is also derived from the Phoenician syllabary, with possibly some Aramaic influences. It is a kind of enigma, as to how Phoenician script came to India (possibly through commerial roots or through the imposition from above, by the Persian or the post-Alexandrine empires). From brahmi are derived all scripts of India (devanagari, Tamil, Telugu, Bengali alphabet etc.), as well as scripts of the South-Eastern Asia (Khmer, Burmeseetc.), which is due to the cultural influence of India upon these regions.
In this sense I said the whole world, except the Chinese, Koreans and the Japanese, should pay royalties for the intellectual property to the Old Egyptians, if the principle of the intellectual property were enforced and carried out consistently.
The Old Egyptians not being around any more, maybe Copts should be the beneficiaries. They would become the richest people on earth.
Other scripts, like the cuneiform Sumerian (and then later Akkadian derived therefrom), Mayan pictographs, script of the valley of Indus (Mohenjo Daro and Harappa) and some other scattered remnants (like the tablets of Tartaria mentioned by you, jokingly) finished in a dead end.